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HANSARD National Health ServiceIf my hon. Friends would allow to make a little more progress, I will absolutely take more interventions. However, I am conscious of wanting to set out the context and thinking…13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceI may well answer many of my hon. Friends’ questions as I proceed, so I ask my right hon. Friend to let me make a little progress and I assure him I will take interventions. As I…13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceIn one moment. Vaccination teams have made multiple visits to care homes since then and as a result 96% of those living in older age care homes have had their first dose and 93%…13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceI will take an intervention from my right hon. Friend the Member for Forest of Dean (Mr Harper).13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceDuring the course of this speech, I will share as much information as I can with my right hon. Friend on the rationale behind this, but let me address his point about the timing.…13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceMy right hon. Friend asks an important question about how things would work in practice, although I think he is presuming that there is a question of compensation. I expect to see…13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceWe have reviewed the huge number of responses to the consultation. Not everybody who responded supported the proposal—as my hon. Friend says, 57% did not—but it was interesting…13 Jul 2021HANSARDDeferred DivisionsI am sorry, but I am conscious of the time left. Several hon. Members have argued that we should continue the current approach to increasing uptake and indeed do more. Of course,…13 Jul 2021HANSARDCarersThe Secretary of State has already said that we are working on our plans for social care reform, and we will be bringing them forward later this year. Of course, as part of those…13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceWe live in an uncertain world, but we know that covid is a killer for people living in care homes and we know that the winter ahead of us is going to be challenging both because…13 Jul 2021HANSARDCarersI thank the hon. Lady for her question and her correspondence on this. She makes a very important point and I will make sure of that.13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceI will make some progress. As the Prime Minister and our chief medical officer have said, even when we are no longer in a pandemic, the virus will remain in some shape or form and…13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceI beg to move, That the draft Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021, which were laid before this House on 22 June, be…13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceThank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I was indeed intending to come to that point. I was commencing my speech by giving some further context, but I can respond to the specific…13 Jul 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for raising this question and the situation of her constituent. What I can say is that we expect clinical commissioning groups to commission fertility…13 Jul 2021HANSARDDeferred DivisionsI thank hon. Members for their contributions and the questions they have put to me during this debate. I welcome the consensus on the importance of protecting care home residents.…13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceIf my hon. Friend will let me, I will cover his exact point. I know that some hon. Members may wish to delay this debate, because they wish to review—13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceAs I said, the impact assessment is being worked on. That is the current situation. I was explaining one of the challenges in coming to an impact assessment that we can share with…13 Jul 2021HANSARDCarersWe recognise how much carers do and the huge demands that caring places on them. We have made carers a priority group for covid-19 testing and vaccination, funded carers’…13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceI will proceed, and I may answer my hon. Friend’s question as I go. We listened to the responses and made the decision to apply the policy to all people working inside care homes,…13 Jul 2021